Burger King's $200 Wagyu Burger

Manny Calavera · Jun 18, 2008

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/food/200...95_burger.html

As Dan said, it was like eating the ortolan of burgers. The meat is Wagyu beef (which is something and nothing at the best of times) from Australia, which being just 2% fat has a further 20% Aberdeen Angus beef fat added to it. Admittedly I wouldn't know what a normal BK burger tastes like, but isn't the point of Wagyu its lean and very particular flavour? Also, it's cooked for four minutes and 50 seconds in an ordinary burger-grilling machine, which felt more than a little sacrilegious.

The buns are made using white truffle flour and dusted with quite a lot of pungent Iranian saffron - that's one heck of a flavour combination to wrap fairly subtle tasting meat in. Then there's the oven-dried Pata Negra ham, organic mayonnaise, pink Himalayan rock salt, more truffles and 25-year-old Modena balsamic vinegar. There are no chips, but the whole thing is stuffed with banana shallots fried in a tempura batter made using Cristal champagne. It's served with a glass of claret, on a china plate with real cutlery, which is all reminiscent of the only time I got upgraded on a flight and got served airline food but was allowed glassware.

dusty · Jun 18, 2008

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It looks pretty tasty though.

DNW · Jun 18, 2008

That chick looks and writes like she's got something stuck up her arse.

gdl203 · Jun 18, 2008

Wagyu, lean? What kind of show are they running at the Guardian?

juicemakesugar · Jun 19, 2008

Burgers are the type of food that lose their charm when they're suddenly "gourmet". I appreciate a quality burger but that's just overkill.

"white truffle flour"?!

repressedm · Jun 19, 2008

I just had Burger King for the first time in ages yesterday. 75+% of the people in the store were overweight, and the product was literally head-ache inducingly disgusting. Never again.

tiecollector · Jun 19, 2008

Originally Posted by repressedm

I just had Burger King for the first time in ages yesterday. 75+% of the people in the store were overweight, and the product was literally head-ache inducingly disgusting. Never again.

ummm.... it isn't a store, it's a restaurant. Just what I want, some grody people making me a $200 burger after they probably jizzed in it.

The Wayfarer · Jun 19, 2008

I'm perfectly content with complimentary filet mignon burgers at Mortons during happy hour.

Street food revitalized as high cuisine has struck me as weird. I "get it," I just think it's weird. With that said, I really like the Lola burger at chef Michael Symon's restaurant in Cleveland. It's made with nicely marbled kobe beef and is just delicious.

The Wayfarer · Jun 19, 2008

Originally Posted by tiecollector

ummm.... it isn't a store, it's a restaurant. Just what I want, some grody people making me a $200 burger after they probably jizzed in it.

Truffled ****, mind you.

Teacher · Jun 19, 2008

Originally Posted by tiecollector

ummm.... it isn't a store, it's a restaurant.

"Store" is restaurant-speak for "restaurant." But only franchises use the term that way.

Tokyo Slim · Jun 19, 2008

Is it just me, or should Wagyu never be cooked that much?

I mean, that burger better be well on the rare side of medium or I'm going to stab someone.

And again, I'd like to point out that Wagyu should not be very "lean. Horrible

gdl203 · Jun 19, 2008

Actually I was always told that wagyu should be cooked medium to well-done because of the heavy fat marbling. That's how it was served to me in Kobe, but I've seen it cooked rare to medium-rare in the US.

It is definitely not lean by any stretch of the imagination - true wagyu/Kobe beef can have up to 9:1 fat marbling to lean muscle ratio - that's 90% fat !

grimslade · Jun 19, 2008

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim

Is it just me, or should Wagyu never be cooked that much?

I mean, that burger better be well on the rare side of medium or I'm going to stab someone.

And again, I'd like to point out that Wagyu should not be very "lean. Horrible

Slim, I think you have anger management issues.

Tarmac · Jun 19, 2008

what a waste of wagyu. why grind it up?

Fulcannelli · Jun 19, 2008

Originally Posted by The Wayfarer

Truffled ****, mind you.

yeh think they force feed the male cooks truffels, its a take on corn fed chicken...

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